Gavy Cravath
Gavy Cravath hit 24 home runs in 1915 – as many as 12 of the other 15 MLB teams; the total established a 20th-century record for homers in a single season.
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Larry Walker
The only player in MLB history to post a season with a .700 slugging % and 30 stolen bases, former MVP Larry Walker was a 3-time batting champ.
Read More >Kirk Gibson
Kirk Gibson remains the only Most Valuable Player never to appear in an All Star game; his Game 1 walk off homer in ’88 was his only at bat of that Series.
Read More >Bobby Thomson
Three-time All Star Bobby Thomson hit “The Shot Heard ‘Round the World” to win the pennant for the Giants. He also had eight 20-homer seasons.
Read More >Paul O’Neill
Immortalized at Yankee Stadium’s Monument Park, 5X All Star Paul O’Neill has 5 World Series rings, and a batting championship to his credit.
Read More >Rocky Colavito
Thanks to 11 straight 20-homer seasons, only 2 AL right-handed batters had more career homers than Rocky Colavito when he retired in 1968.
Read More >Tommy Holmes
When it comes to the NL in the 1900s, only Pete Rose‘s 44-game hit streak is longer than the 37-gamer put up by Tommy Holmes in 1945.
Read More >Bob Elliott
MLB’s leading RBI man of the 1940’s, Bob Elliott was the ’47 NL MVP and retired #1 among third baseman in MLB history in HR and slugging %.
Read More >Roger Maris
A back-to-back MVP in 1960 and ’61, Roger Maris joined Babe Ruth as the only players to top the 60-homer mark before the steroid era.
Read More >Frank Saucier
Frank Saucier hit .449 average in 1949 – the highest in all of baseball; he was the Sporting News Minor League Player of the Year 1950.
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